Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	brethren_n	know_v	life_n	4,656	5	5.3920	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08481	Gods rebuke in taking from vs that worthy and honourable gentleman Sir Edward Lewkenor Knight, the first day of May this present yeere 1618, he being at that time high Sheriffe of Suffolke whose Christian life and comfortable end are here faithfully recorded. Together with diuers profitable and necessarie instructions; deliuered first in a discourse at his funerall, and now inlarged, and published, for the benefit of others not then present. By T.O. aliàs P. minister of the word of God at Denham in Suffolke.	Oldmayne, Timothy.	1619 (1619)	STC 18805; ESTC S113488	40,569	121

falshood Whether lastly his whole endeauour did not bend it selfe as to maintaine good men and good causes so to quell and daunt the prophanesse and outragious disorders of the times Let I say such a bill as this be now tendered vnto her and without question you shall haue her hand that it is Billa vera a virdict true in all points But suppose she should most ingratefully refuse surely the matter is not great seeing there are so many and of no meane credit whose sorrowfull countenances are at this time in mine eie who both knew the truth of this as also of the rest that hath hetherto beene spoken concerning the blessed life of this worthy Person and will be ready I doubt not vpon any necessary occasion to auerre and iustifie the same And thus haue I I know not how troden a blessed way the way wherein this blessed man walked and richly adorned it was with many a delightfull flower Those that I haue offered vnto you to my thinking were the fairest A clearer eye perhaps especially in such aboundance would haue spied out many more of like nature and of as excellent a glosse but these though few yet in my iudgement are sufficient for the discerning of those two things that in the entrance to speake of his life I propounded to your considerations 1. His Piety 2. His Integrity And therefore contenting my selfe with the same I will leaue speaking any further of his life and come to his death the occasion indeed of a lamentable Metamorphosis here amongst vs Bethel being as you see strangely changed into Bochim the habitation of delight into the house of mourners Now for his death we are to know it was much what such a one as Caesar desired 1. Short 2. Vnexpected Neither must I be mistaken for saying it was vnexpected as though this Christian Gentleman had either made a couenant with death and the graue or put the euill day farre from him doubtlesse he that taketh but the least suruey of his vertuous life shall easily perceiue the contrarie that hee rather as appeared by his more then ordinarie imploying of his Talent was continually expecting his Audit-day when he must of necessity make vp his reckoning And as for the tempest that is now falne he did like a wise Pilot discrie it long agoe afarre off and did not onely fit and prepare himselfe for it but did with many sweete and comfortable words hearten on and incourage his dearest friends patiently to indure that which in his wisedome hee saw would not long be auoided To vs onely it was both sodaine and in very truth altogether vnlooked for for who would haue dreamt of this some 12. or 13. dayes agoe or what reason had we who were in his company both eating and drinking merry and cheerefull seeing him as like to liue as he was many a day before to entertaine the least melancholike thought of his Fatalitie being so nigh But let mee answer my selfe reasons there were many but if none yet his eminencie in grace had beene reason sufficient for the more the mountaine hath in height the lesse it hath in shadow and the higher any person is in esteeme with God vsually that shadow of his I meane his life is wont to be the shorter What remained after Hester was fully purified and euery way meet for the embracings of so mighty a Prince but to be taken immediately into the Royall Palace It is reported of Henoch that he walked with God and presently after the text saith he was not found and the reason is there likewise expressed for God tooke him to himselfe Neither in my iudgement is it any way fitting that such fauorites as these should be long absent in this sorrowfull vale out of the presence of that great Monarch of the whole world who doth not onely loue them most intirely but hath also so liberally prouided for them a satietie of pleasure euery way so absolute And besides as we soothed vp our selues with vaine hopes in his health so did we likewise the greatest time of his sicknesse Howbeit herein wee are not much to be blamed wee being persons beguiled altogether through the deceitfull working of the maladie which continually hid it selfe in those secret and vitall parts of his neither did death euer vnmaske it selfe but like a subti l Headsman went cloaked vp downe vntill on the sudden it gaue him his deadly blow And surely the time was very short not many houres before his dissolution or euer wee had the least suspicion of the same For is it not a strange thing that the death of his disease should be a forerunner of his owne The day before that his last to our thinking and his owne feeling his Feuer hauing quite left him Nor did hee all his sicknesse through shew himselfe more cheerefull nor yeeld vnto vs a more assured hope of his recouerie then at that time And therfore I would desire all especially those whom his death more nighly concerneth to beare the same the more contentedly seeing that now it is so easily discerned to be no other thing else but the meere pleasure of God thus hastily and in the flower of his age to cut in sunder the thred of his life The blame I know right well will especially of the ignorant multitude be laid vpon that learned man his Physitian whom both for his great skill in that his science as also his extraordinary care ouer his so much respected a patient I shall for mine owne part honour whilst I breathe But brethren let them and vs all know that if God shooteth his arrow it is not the shield of man or Angell that catching the same can keepe it possibly from the sides of him to whom it is intended Neither is there any Balme so soueraigne that can heale the wound that death maketh Let him therefore haue his due hee went as farre as Art could leade him if it had pleased God to haue seconded his labours wee ought as I make no question wee should to haue beene most thankfull how euer we must be content knowing that although this be vnexpected of vs yet of him long since determined when these dayes of his were numbred that are now fulfilled Againe secondly that I may hasten to his last and dying breath wee are to know as his death was vnexpected of vs so was it doubtlesse for this Elects sake exceedingly shortned God herein answering him his continuall desire which was that in his last sicknesse his soule might part with as little sense of the bodies miserie as might be For we are to know that vntill the Thursday at night before his death hee dying the euening following and only some two or three houres preceding his end his paines were not great but only such ordinary Symptomes as commonly attend vpon a Tertian Ague Howbeit vpon the Thursday at night about 9. or 10. of the clocke hee grew contrary to our expectation much fainter and drawing his breath